Tag Archives: Judge Jerrauld C. Jones

On July 14, 2016, a Norfolk jury award­ed $1,000,000.00 to a 32-year-old yoga in­structor who was in­jured in a motor vehicle accident on October 23, 2014. The plaintiff was op­erating a motor vehicle on Granby Street when she was struck ...

On July 27, 2010, plaintiff called defendant’s office due to pain he had been experiencing for approximately two weeks from a badly decayed tooth (#31, a lower right 2nd molar). A different dentist had advised plaintiff 18 months prior that ...

A marital agreement was not “unconscionable” even though it gave wife the marital home but made husband fully responsible for all costs and debts associated with the home and two other parcels of real estate, gave wife half of husband’s ...

Although plaintiff contends it inadvertently inserted the words “with prejudice” into a dismissal order submitted in its wrongful death action filed earlier in Newport News Circuit Court, granting that dismissal with prejudice bars plaintiff from converting this personal injury action ...

A plaintiff who, as part of its settlement of contract and warranty claims against defendant KBS Inc., was assigned KBS’ rights against third-party defendant The Phoenix Corporation, cannot amend its complaint to assert those derivative third-party claims against TPC, but ...

A Norfolk Circuit Court rejects defendants’ request to hold a separate pretrial evidentiary hearing on whether decedent was of sound mind at the time of his suicide; the court agrees with plaintiffs that determining before trial whether plaintiffs’ suit is ...

A Norfolk Circuit Court grants defendant restaurant owner’s motion in limine to bar plaintiff from making any argument or implication that by serving “free drinks” to a co-defendant and his group, the movant violated Va. Code § 4.1-308. Defendant’s motion ...

Plaintiff, 49, had been treated by various physicians at the defendant clinic since at least 1999 for recurrent sinusitis, upper respiratory infections and allergic rhinitis. He presented to the defendant doctor in December 2009 for an annual physical. The physical ...

The injury claim seems straightforward. Your client was hurt in a motor vehicle accident. The other driver clearly was at fault. The other vehicle has plenty of insurance. So, why is this case not a slam-dunk winner? If the other ...

A physician who reviewed plaintiff’s pathology slides and rendered a diagnostic opinion to plaintiff’s treating physician undertook to provide health care to plaintiff and reasonably could be found to have created a doctor-patient relationship which gives rise to a duty ...